The Green Party

Minor Political Parties

Role of Minor Parties

Ideological Parties

Single Issue Parties

Splinter Parties

Economic Protest Parties

Obstacles Facing Minor Parties

The Green Party

Feminism and Gender Equality

Personal and Global Responsibility

Future Focus and Sustainability

Ecological Wisdom

Grass Roots Democracy

Respect for Diversity

Decentralization

Community-Based Economics and Economic Justice

Social Justice and Equal Opportunity

Non-Violence

Arne Naess is the founder of ecological wisdom

Jenna Hannan

Help voter turnout bringing more people to the polls

May be used by voters to cast a protest votes as a form of referendum

Debate rules

Draw attention to issues that are ignored by the majority parties

Parties based on a comprehensive view of social, economic, and political matters

Parties rooted in periods of economic discontent

Parties concentrating on a single public policy matter

Parties which have split away from on of the major parties

Voters worry that a vote for a minor party candidate is wasted

A significant amount of paperwork is required to become a candidate

Federal campaign finance laws dictate who can enter presidential debates

Often organized around a single issue which leads to less popularity

The presidential candidate with the highest percentage of votes gets all the state's electoral votes

A political party can only get government funding to run if it received a certain percentage of votes from the previous election

Based on the principle of environmentalism, reliance on grass roots democracy, nonviolence, and support for social justices

The mission of the Green Party is to build the Green Party into a viable political alternative in the United States

This is the symbol of the Green Party.

These are the symbols of the major parties

An example of social justice is freedom of thought.

This is a graph of voter turnout.

This is the electoral college vote map from the 2008 election.

Supports a woman's right to choose in all circumstances

Eliminate nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction

Free education from preschool through graduate school at public institutions